NCAA Div. I: BYU Women Defeat San Diego State

PROVO, Utah, November 8. THE BYU women's swimming and diving team bounced back from a loss to UNLV the night before to defeat San Diego State, 177-123, Saturday afternoon at the Richards Building pool.

Coach Stan Crump said he was pleased with the resiliency the team showed.

"It's always tough to come back and swim so early in the afternoon," Crump said. "I challenged them to do that and they came through for us."

The Cougars continued to excel in the back and breaststroke events, recording the top three times in both the 100 breast and 100 back and the top four times in the 200 breast. BYU also had three of the top four times in the 200 back.

BYU won both relays, finishing with a time of 1:48.83 in the 200 medley and a time of 1:39.17 in the 200 free.

San Diego State began the meet by clocking a time of 1:50.87 in the 200 free relay. The quartet of Adriana Quirke, Jill Karacozoff, Emily Schmied and Caitlin Friedhoff improved the team's time by some three seconds over it opening meet three weeks ago.

Among the top individual performers was freshman Caitlin Friedhoff, who won the 50 free in 24.80 and took second in the 100 free with a mark of 53.46.

The Aztecs other first-place finish came from junior Jennifer Arrow, who went 1:08.11 to capture the 100 breaststroke. Aztec swimmers took the top three places in that event, with second going to Karacozoff (1:09.22) and third to Jennifer Graham (1:09.73).

The Aztecs also went one-two in both the one and three-meter diving competitions. Freshman Jennifer Colvin took first place in each of those events followed by soph Lindsey Minnich.

SDSU swimmers also garnered runner-up honors in both the 200 individual medley (Stella Karoly – 2:14.88) and 500 freestyle (Megan Storey – 5:08.34). The Aztecs finished the day by capturing second and third in the 200 free relay.